A pair of Fort Hood soldiers were sentenced to time behind bars after they were linked to a human smuggling operation uncovered in Texas last year.
The soldiers, Isaiah Gore, 21, and Denerio Williams, 22, both of them active duty, pleaded guilty in December 2021 to conspiring to transport undocumented aliens, according to a statement released by U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery on Friday. They were sentenced to 2 1/2 years 2 years in prison, respectively. Both soldiers also received three years of supervised release after their prison time is up.
An investigation into the scheme revealed that Gore actively recruited people to pick up undocumented immigrants while Williams and other soldiers served as drivers, who then took the immigrants elsewhere in Texas in exchange for money.
